Today, Blackmagic Design announces new DeckLink 8K Pro with Quad Link 12G-SDI capture and playback card designed to allow real time high resolution 8K workflows. DeckLink 8K Pro has been designed to support all film and video formats from SD all the way up to 8K DCI, 12-bit RGB 4:4:4, plus it also handles advanced colour spaces such as Rec. 2020 for deeper colour and higher dynamic range. You can also work with up to 64 channels of audio, stereoscopic 3D, high frame rates and more.

The combination of higher resolution, a vastly larger colour space and incredible dynamic range means that DeckLink 8K Pro delivers the sharpest and most vivid images customers have ever seen for editing, colour and high end visual effects work. The card is expected to be available in early January. 

DeckLink 8K ProThe advanced broadcast technology in DeckLink 8K Pro is built into an easy to install 8 lane generation 3 PCI Express for Mac, Windows, and Linux workstations. Customers get support for all legacy SD and HD formats, along with Ultra HD, DCI 4K, 8K and DCI 8K, as well as Rec. 601, 709 and 2020 colour.

Designed to work seamlessly with the upcoming DaVinci Resolve 14.2 Studio for an incredibly seamless editing, colour and audio post production workflow that lets users master full resolution high dynamic range projects in full 8K resolution. Additionally, it also works with other professional applications such as Final Cut Pro X, Media Composer, Premiere Pro, After Effects, ProTools, Nuke and more. There’s even a free software development kit so customers and OEMs can build their own custom solutions.

“DeckLink 8K Pro is our most advanced PCIe capture and playback card ever,” said Grant Petty, Blackmagic Design CEO. “It’s exciting because the 8K images have so much clarity and detail that it’s as if you’re looking out a window. Whether it’s for the 2020 Olympics or the next generation of Hollywood blockbusters, DeckLink 8K Pro has the speed, quality and compatibility customers need to do their best work!” For more information or specification details, please go to blackmagicdesign.com.